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Kanye West Says Kim Kardashian Is His “Dinosaur”

Kanye West’s interview with GQ’s Zach Baron is riveting and delightful from beginning to end, and is really worth reading the whole way through. (We just want to burrow ourselves inside this interview and not emerge until the end of the day.) This is an interview in which West says, “Carine Roitfeld is the Walt Disney of what Tumblr is today,” and that’s probably not even one of the 10 most memorable lines. West discusses everything from his upcoming album (due this fall) to Jay Z (“He’s the poster child of winning”) to his relationship to the fashion industry (“I guarantee you, I'm more than 50 percent responsible for every . . . Balenciaga shoe they sell.”) But the topic he keeps returning to, understandably (especially given the interview took place a week after his wedding), is Kim.

When asked about Jay Z and Beyonce not attending his wedding, Kanye responded, adorably, “All that, I wouldn't even speak on. It doesn't even matter to me whatsoever, who would show up. Because the most important person to show up there, to me, was Kim. And that's all that matters to me. I had to fight for that for seven years.” He credits Kim with their wedding Instagram photo garnering 2.3 million likes (setting a record), explaining, with appealing modesty, “. . . there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes.” And in a two-paragraph-long epic poem, which—if we were Kim—we would have printed out and framed (hell, we’re not Kim, and we may do that, anyway), he quotes a certain Will Ferrell movie to express his affection for the reality star supernova: “Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.” (The “dinosaur,” if it wasn’t clear, is Kim.) He goes on, “You mean to tell me that this girl with this fucking body and this face is also into style, and she's a nice person, and she has her own money and is family-oriented? That's just as cool as a fucking fighter jet or dinosaur! And just as rarely seen.”

Believe it or not, we have only covered, like, 50 percent of the Kim content in the interview so far. He says, later on, “Kim is the type of girl that, her entire life, if you were in school with her, most people would be studying and up late nights, but for some reason she would have the skill set to go and grab the one book, turn to the exact page, and just magically say, ‘That's the exact answer.’ Or she could wink at the person who had done all the work and get it done anyway. And the point of life is getting shit done and being happy.” And then, after calling them “two LeBrons” (which, somehow, almost seems an understatement), he explains he’s learning a lot from Kim: “I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.” (Thankfully, there’s an iPhone game that trains you in just that.)

At this point, we’ve quoted nearly a quarter of the interview, we know, but we must conclude with this seriously moving final bit, in which West riffs on what’s “cool”: “. . . I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool shit, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and shit, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That shit is super cool.”